January 24, 2014

paintings in progress • january '14

Been stealing some time for painting recently, and if feels good. Things feel like they're making a different kind of sense to me.

Time spent wearing one of my painting aprons is good time. (I just sewed one of my samplers and a bunch of fabric scraps over an apron that was covered in paint one day, figure I'll cover it up again with paint eventually.)

I'm currently trying to focus on 3 larger new paintings. Well, they've been works in progress for awhile, so the term "new" is flexible. I'm really enjoying them and feeling things in my painting style and process shift a little. Creative exploration always leads somewhere...sometimes places more pleasing than others ;).

All I know for sure is, the more I paint, the more I want to paint. I still do not have a dedicated painting space set up and that makes me frustrated as well as annoyed with myself. It makes things harder and wastes time. As soon as I finish the art journal e-course, that should be first on the agenda. We'll see.

These are feeling close to finished and it feels exciting. I'm hoping I'll be able to let them go right away, right now I'm feeling too attached. It's always a process.

I love exploring texture, and color, and form, and line quality, and and and...

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paintings in progress • january '14

Been stealing some time for painting recently, and if feels good. Things feel like they're making a different kind of sense to me.

Time spent wearing one of my painting aprons is good time. (I just sewed one of my samplers and a bunch of fabric scraps over an apron that was covered in paint one day, figure I'll cover it up again with paint eventually.)

I'm currently trying to focus on 3 larger new paintings. Well, they've been works in progress for awhile, so the term "new" is flexible. I'm really enjoying them and feeling things in my painting style and process shift a little. Creative exploration always leads somewhere...sometimes places more pleasing than others ;).

All I know for sure is, the more I paint, the more I want to paint. I still do not have a dedicated painting space set up and that makes me frustrated as well as annoyed with myself. It makes things harder and wastes time. As soon as I finish the art journal e-course, that should be first on the agenda. We'll see.

These are feeling close to finished and it feels exciting. I'm hoping I'll be able to let them go right away, right now I'm feeling too attached. It's always a process.

I love exploring texture, and color, and form, and line quality, and and and...